Re:Fluctuations in silver prices can predict the probability...
by jaclaz on Wednesday October 09, 2019 @04:02AM
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>I especially appreciate the ...
And you missed this > 0.99 one (a bit dated, still ...):
Apple iPhone sales
correlates with
People who died by falling down the stairs
Re:Fluctuations in silver prices can predict the probability...
by thaumasiotes on Wednesday October 09, 2019 @11:07AM
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Sure, but like all the 0.99+ correlations, that one is just two lines moving in the same direction.
It's a good one in two ways. First, it's nicely obvious that these things are unrelated. Second, these are two variables that fluctuate (together) over time -- a lot of the spurious correlations turn out to be two things that basically just increase or decrease more or less constantly over the period in question.